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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10

Ed Woolverton and wife left last even-
ing for their homo in Secret Valley.
John s. Mayhugh and family win
leave tomorrow for their Ruby Valley
ranch. 'Ns5
The new brick building which IL be-
ing erected by Or. Meigs ia nearing
complexion rsraos,,s -
The lAtest reports state that Gov.
Bartlett Oopti4ussto grow worse and his
death is ezpected-ht any moment.
The other youpg man lost his
mind fsom smoking cigarettes. This
should not unft him of continuing the
habit + Frs,i
The Central Neyadan says $50, 600, 900
squirrels have been killed in Elko coun.
~ this season. That's good many,
Bro. Dennis.
"Does dress make che mani" asks
an inquisisse correspoqdeut. Perhaps
not. but it usually makes the man mad
when he gets tho bill for it.
Times: Revisw;-Phil Snyder, Jim
tcherzberg and Jerry Lewis returned
from hunting expedition last evening,
bringing in the cafcasses Of seven deer.
Stanley Taber has returned refreshed
and invigorated by his mon.h,a visit to
Austin, and this morning resumed his
old position at the case n tie INDIE
Pendent ONCE. Ns~'s's
The amount allowed by the Board of
Commissioners for ,bonnties on scalps
at their last meeting exceeded the al
owanes for any one month daring the
season. being $t,6A s3. 3
The total valuation Of property, real
and personal inLahdef county for 1887
is $1,s15,271 l60;, assessment in 1886
s1.7s3.1Os So; thus showing . gain of
$23, 1ss So. SO says che Rsyeille.
w. T. Smith has obtained an abund-
ance ohHatsr in the we'll for Supplying
his residence with water, the huge tank
capablg of holding 5000 gallons is in
place fhnd'thf works win s coon be com
NevAds Tribune TBarnum offers
$4,000 FORE sea- serpent. and some
claim theicreat grel to be q myth, but it
is not 10, kor khis writer saw one in the
Straits of saAds, on. the eass7 coast of
the island Ot Java. nearly ss.Iong as the
vessel he was an officer of
."My friends" said a Temperance
lectures, lowering his voice to an inn
pressive whisper, ''if all the grogshops.
were al the bottom Of the sea, what
would be the resuIt9" And che ans
wer came" LOsa OF people would get
dro WI d." -, III
Having located in .Elko i em pre-.
pared 70 all orders for Paihtine, Grain
ing and Pepper Hanging. Ceiling Deco.
r"tions speciality. All work Arst
class. Leave orders at Brown & Hos
kin's shop. i
-'rg 60. +. HARVEY.
At tie White Rlains salt works. on
the linss Of the osatratSpacinc Railroad,
beyond ws@sworth, says the Reno.
JournA. in sinking ,iarfs pits or wells.
many fish. pertectly preserved, have
been found II the strata Of rock salt
out though:
Ben Butler purpoess getting rid Of
those spoons. :, Or which 80 much has
ben said. HeEhes forwarded dozen
silver ones TO Fair Committee at East
Aurora. N. Y, TO b. presented 10 the
young woman who enters the bonds Of
matrimony on the opening day Of the
Fair.
1t Is nnderstooi that the progrsmm
which the President has laid down for
his proposed swing ground the cirols
will not admit Of his Waiting the Pacific
Coast the present season, ao.witbstandi
ing the invitation hs has received from
kha g.. D.. 49, zthL -. "a ~.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10

The Tniversai Comblnaslon.
E. Fence. -'.--.-
Proof against all animals from rab-
bit to d ad steer. Prices as follows:
2 inch mesh per rod ~ ~, $l.35
9 inch mesh per rod 81 Is
Pointed Pickets S cts per rod extra.
Reduction on large orders.
Manufactured by ~ @A
---WM o. YOUNG, i
~.... Elko. New.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10
: NETY CENTS PER WEEK.

All Glasses OF LeEitimate Al.
vertisements net Exceeding Ten
Lines HHoceee4rin thAs UOlOnn,
fer FIFTY Cents = week: I y "a cd
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10

CogswelI:-In EIko, September 10,
1887, to to tn, the vile 81 Frank cogywell.
. . daughter. - .s... ,.,.g.-... -
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10

DEPOT HoTEL-clark 4 Green Proprie.
20 4 90 3l tore. ,IrTr"
Smith Weiland, G 9 Tuggle. Thos
LoTeiock, Tuscarora; A G Dawiey,
Ruby Valley; J J. Campbell. Fl Halleck;
A Reboule, Lamoille; W II Payne. Sac
ramento; Gilbert Allen, jas Brown,
WInnemucca. 90 r go. ..-.,s..
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10
The ,FsAaksi 'CfsAit6fs.

...I..Li wilde., as.ignes Of the assets
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10

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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10
BOOM

VIII be upon you and you will reaIiz %
that every dollar spent in furthering o
local enterprise will return to you doub.
led, while every one you send away viii
be gone forever. In looking around to
zee where to spend those Dollars NEST
iadvantageoualy il will
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10

Elko. sspt,embsr, q, 1887
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10

WrLLTs RICHARDSON.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-09-10

The new brick building which is be-
ing erected by Or. Meigs is nearing
..Sn,oInfion ts.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
The Prices of Wheat.

MT. J. R. Dodge, the statistician of the Department of Agriculture, has re- gently prepared an article on the pro- ductlon and prices of wheat, which will be read with peculiar interest so far as 1t relates to the dreaded Indian compe- htlon with our own wheat-growing in dustry. The records of imports of wheat into the United Kingdom for the first half of the present year shows a large increase in the proportion fur nlshed by this country y-sixty-eight per cent. as against fifty-four per cent. in the first six months of either of the last two years. The record shows decided reduction of the imports from Russia and from Australia, and decrease of twenty per cent. in receipts from India as compared with the first six months of last year. Our own wheat ranges eight cents per bushel higher than that from India, and five cents per bushel higher than that from Russia. Its comparative quality is shown by the fact that, while 1t is decidedly higher than that of any other non-European country, the quan- tlty furnished is twice as much as that supplied by all other countries. India is our principal competitor in the mar kets of the world, but the exports from India for the last ten years would not equal the crop of an average year in this country. The Indian crop of the pres ent year will probably be twenty million bushels less than that of the preceding year, while Australia will probably pro duce fifteen million bushels more than last year.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
FIVE MINUTES RAPID WORK.
A Chicago Stenographer's Remark
 able Feat.

MT. Fred. J. Ireland, court stenographer of Detroit, has just returned from attending the convention of the New York State stenog raphers at Alexandria Bey. This trip was the result of a controversy that has been in pro- gross for the last two years between the short hand men of the East and the West, g owing out of some correspondence between MT. Ire land and the New York association, in which the former took the position that high rate of SD ed was frequently essential to accurate court reporting, and that there were court re- porters in Michigan who could write 250 words per minute and maintain it for several con- secutive minutes. Finally Mir. A P. Little, Rochester stenographer, offered to pay fifty dollars to see that rate kept up for five min utes. Accordingly Mir. Ireland and MT. Isaac S. Dement,, a former Michigan writer but now of Chicago, dropped in on their NewYork breth- ren at Alexandria Bay. MT. Little then plcaed his offer ill different form, to the effect that ,25) words must be consecutivcly written, without an error of single word or the division of sentence, and there must be no deviation from the printed copy, which he claimed the privilege of selecting.
 After some controversy this was finally ac- ccptcd, and the selected matter turned over to the Western men. MT. Ireland read the se- lection and MT. Dement, did the writing. After few preliminary trials he wrote ], ,292 words in five consecutive minutes, and read the mat ter back to the convention while a committee consisting of E. D. Easton, the famous report of the Guiteau trial; George R. Bishop, official reporter of the New York Stock Ex- change, and George Thornton, an official re- porter of Buffalo, compared the notes with the original. This was an average of 25S words per minute. In the 1,292 words read back there was but single deviation from tho text which the committee considered material. More than 250 words were correctly written in each of the five minu'es. The President of the association, Col. E. B. Dickinson, of New York city, said that in more than 25 years of active experience as a stenographer it was the most remarkable piece of writing that he had ever seen done, and that he had never dream cd that such a rate of speed could be attained. This was done by the Graham system, which is the one chiefly used in Michigan.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
The Premier Means Business.

The Hon. J. Norquay, of Winnipeg, Pre-. mier of the Canadian province of Manitoba, arriving in New York, said to reporter that he had come in connection with the province's railroad affairs, which have of late been occu- pying considerable attention both in Manitoba and in the Dominion capital, on account of the determination of the Manitobans to build Q railroad from Winnipeg, their capital, to West Lynn, at the southern boundary of the province, where it will unite with the North ern Pacific Railways terminus at St. Vincent, Minn.
 "The grading of the propose road" said Mir. Norquay, ''will be finished within a week, and by November the road will be contracted. The local Parliament is unanimously in favor of the road, and, I believe, will remain so, in spite of the Canadian Pacific's endeavor to create feeling in opposition to it. We want to send our wheat to Eastern Canada by the cheapest route, and that is why we are building this road. Of course if we can find good market on the way we shall use it. It is l, 500 miles from Winnipeg to Montreal and 800 miles to Minneapolis. It costs 30 cents to car " bushel of wheat from Winnipeg to Mon treal so that the farmers would do better per haps, to sell their produce in nearer market. There is no fear of trouble between the local and Dominion Government, and there is no fear of the Canadian Pacific Road giving us the go-by, as has been threatened. We arc in need of that 67 miles of railroad and we arc going to have it."
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
ANOTHER woNDERFUL YACHT,
The Yankee Papoose, which is Sur prising New England Yachtsmen.

It may fairly be doubted whether Mir. Ed ward Burgess in his Puritan, Mayfower, and Volunteer scored so signal success, viewed strictly from the standpoint of a marine archl- tect, as he has in his little beamy cutter, or keel sloop, Papoose, built at Lawleyss this summer for the Adams boys o1 Quincy. The Puritan when she was launched found nothing of her size in American waters to contend with except the Priscilla, whose weakness in certain points was notorious, but the Papoose has been winning victories right along against the cream of the small yachts in the New England racing fleet, such boats as the centreboards Shadow, Seamona, and Magic of her own class in size, and well. tried in scores of regattas. The Shadow had been practically invincible before the Pa poose appeared. The keelboat beat all the centreboards in the Dorchester regatta last June, though the fast centreboards themselves beat the English knife-on-edge cutter. Again, in the open Corinthian regatta the Papoose led all her competitors by an hour over twenty-mile course, and on Monday, ln the Beverly open regatta off Marblehead, she came in half an hour ahead of the vaunted Shadow, the famous old Herreshof model, in which Capt. Crocker of the Puritan won his early laurels. Light air or ten-knot breeze seems to make no difference to the Papoose. Her astounding successes have set Eastern yachtsmen to thinking what Burgess could do in the way of big keel sloop built to beat the Volunteer. They would like to see him try it.
 The Papoose's sailing length is S7O7. She is 12 feet wide, or twice as wide as the English Shona, which is only two or three feet shorter on the water line. So the Papooso is thor oughlv American in her wholesome beam, and English cutter maniacs can get no satisfaction ont of her success.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
Captured the Rifle.

A Sergeant belonging to the Fifth Battalion of Rifles, which is stationed on the French frontier, having got into scrape, and having the fear of the lock up before his eyes, tripped lightly across the boundary line when he thought no- body was looking, and, after walking a good mile, turned into farm house to rest and refresh himself. He had been perceived by party of French youths, who noticed that he had carried his rife away with him. Convinced that this was one of the new weapons, and that the soldier intended to present it to Ger many, the young men stepped boldly across the frontier, and, keeping the de- serter we'll in view, followed him to the farm house. They got into conversation with the chasseur, and after 8 time suc- ceeded in persuading him to bring down his rifle from a bedroom up stairs, in which it had already been placed. Then the youths, pretending that they were going to drill for fun, made their way into the farnyard, and, as soon as they had secured good start, bolted. The deserter and the people of the farm rush. ed after them, raising hue and cry, and soon Q regular hunt was organized, in which the peasantry, the customs off cials and some German officers who were passing by joined. But the young men maintained their advantage, and got safely back into France with the rife in their possession. They sent the weapon in Q case with an explanatory note to the local gendarmes, who were astounded when they found what narrow escape one of the new rifles had of fin ing it's way into German hands.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
WRECKED BY A HURRICANE.
The Crew at the Pumps Without
 Food or Sleep.

The Alexandre line steamer City of Wash ington, arrived from Havana, brought in Capt. Garau and his crew of eleven men-and dog of the brigatine Catalina of Palma Majorca, who had been taken from the Wreck or thelr vessel. o.
 On the 18th the ship was about 700 miles south. a little east, of New York. With but scant warning, violent hurricane came on, which broke the foremast off at the deck and sent it crashing over the port rail. The main tonmast and the head of the mainmast follow ed, together with the bowsprit, which broke off at the knightheads. With all that stuff dragging in the water, the crew were wholly unable to do anything to control her, ana she fell off helpless in the trough o1 tHe sea. me very next wave that came along struck her under the counter and wrecked her rudder, and at the same time so badly strained her about the crn post that she began to leah. The crew were at that time clearing away the wreckage to leeward, but, with that work but half completed and the foremast humping heavily against the side of the ship at nearly every roll they were called to the pumps. At first they soon pumped her out and wore then able to get clear of the seas her seams opened wider: and at nlshtfall on Friday the crew were obliged to keep one pump agoing constantly to keep the vessel afloat. The waves were making a clean preacn over the deck at about every roll, ana no one got any sleep that night. The men lashed themselves to the pumps, and worked all night long.
 The storm left the wrecked ship on Sunday, but a very high sea was running all that day and the next To add to the misery of the men me-, the galley had been washed away, and the men could get nothing to eat save few crackers soaked with salt water. On Sunday and Monday they got n thing at all but, ren. dered desperate by the certainty of death ii they relaxed their iabors, they kept one pump clanking all the tiz,e while part of the men bailed her out with buckets. At 9o'clock on Monday night, after three days of misery and two of starvation, they saw the lights of a steamer that was evidently so far away as not to be able to see them. There were no rockets or flash lights at hand, but part of the cargo consisted of rum A piece of canvas was twisted up torch fashion, dipped in rum bar. rel and fired. It sent mp Q lurid glare that was seen by the crew or me . s'ea wrac WHO
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
MARKET NOTES.
Wholesale Produce Quotations in
 New York and Elsewhere.

Quoted State Dairy IS to 2ac.; State Creamery, B to 25c.; Elgin Creamery, B to 25c.; Western do., 9 to 25c.; Imitation ao., 17 to 20c.; Western Factory, 16 to 17c; June packed Factory, 15 to 1Sc.
 BEANS AND PEAS. = Quoted W. Kidney choice, $1.S5; Marrow, s2.20. Medium, S1 90; Pea, $1.9o; R. Kidney, s1.S5; Green Peas, s110.
 CHEESE Quoted: Fancy White State Fac Prime do, III ac.; Western Flats, 91s to 10Ic The market is dull. Quotations from Liverpool are: New White, 57s.; New Colored. 59s.
 DRIED FRurs-Evaporated Apples firm st 13 to 14c. Sun-Dried, 5 to 6c. Rasp- berries, 21 to 23c. Cherries, 15 to 17c.
 EeGs.--Quoted: State and Penn., fresh, 17o.; Western do., 161Sc.; Canadian do; l6c. to sl.25; Nyack, do. 75e. to sl.5o; butehess of Oldenberg, sl.5O to s225; Astrakan, S1.75 to s2.25; Peaches, Md. and Del. Old Mixons, 75c. to $l.5O; Md. Early Crawford, SIPS to S1.75; Jersey, 50 to SIPS per basket; Huckle- berries, 5 to 7c.; Mussmelons, Hackensack, S200; Jersey Watermelons, S7.OO to S16.OOper 100; So. Grapes, to 1Sc. per lb; Pears, per bbl, S15O to S2.25, fine Jersey and Up-river Bart let's or Clapps bringing highest figures.
 HAY AND STRAw.-Quoted, per 100 lbs: Re- tailing, 6Oc. to 95c.; Clover, 4Oc. to 6Oc. {; Shipping, 45c to 55c.; Salt, 5Oc. to 55c. ; Long Rye Straw, 55c. to 65c; Short Rye Straw, 45c. to 50c.; Oat Straw, 45c. to 50c. Wheat Straw, 4Oc. to 45c.
 POULTRY AND GAME.-Quoted: Live Western Geese, per pair, .25 to Sl.37; Turkeys, 13 to 14c.; Ducks, per pair, 40 to 70c.; Spring Chickens, IS to 15c.; State Fowls, 13c.; !; Mixed Boosters, 7c. DREssED-Turkeys, H to 141sc; Spring Chickens, IA to 21c.; Fowls, 14c; GAME1Tame Squabs, S1.5O to $2.25; Woodcock, $1.0O to $1.25 per pair; Wild Pigeons, S1.50 to S2.OO.
 VEGETABLEs.-Quoted: Potatoes, L. l, Rose, $1.S7 to S2OO; Onions, s1. 50 to g.. 75 per bbl. Tomatoes, L. l., g to Soc per crate; L. l. Cucumbers, 75c. per 100; Jersey Green Corn, 5Oc. to Sl 50 per 100; Eastern Shore Sweets, 8 g to S2.5 50 per bbl.; L. I. Lima Beans, &. 0( per bag; Jersey Russia Turnips, S1.00 pel bbl.; l.. l. Egg Plant, s1.5O.
 SUNDREs. 21 to 23c.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
RESCUED FROM THE SEA. The City of MontreaIs Missing Boa t
 Picked Up.

LONDON, Aug. 25.-The City of Montreal! missing boat was picked up on the 18th inst, md the seven passengers and six members of ile crew who were ill 1t are safe and we'll The rescue was made by German brigantine named the Mat1ilde, from Campeachy, which arrived at Falmouth to-day with the thirteen survivors on board.
 The rescued men say that when their boat left the burning steamer there were fifteen persons on board. Finding it too crowded, two persons jumped aboard another boat The e was only half keg of water in the boat and that was bad. There was no sail aboard and no means for signaling passing vessels. The boat was nearly swamped twice, and the men had hard struggle to keep her afloat by bailing. On the first day after leay. ing the steamer they experienced very rough weather. They had 0 plentiful supply of bread and meat, but very little water. As a consequence, they suffered badly from thirst. The weather was hot and this greatly contrib uted to their discomfort. On Thursday they sighted a steamer, end pulled toward her, sig naling with jacket and a handkerchief, but the steamer passed on without seeing them. On Friday they sighted another steamer at $ great distance. On Saturday they sighted an other vessel and pulled toward it, and founo that it was the City of Montreal, still burning. They tried to board her to obtain more water, .ut her plates were too hot. They drifted 1ntil Monday, when they were rescued by the Mathilde. They laud the kindness of the Mathi de's captain and crew. When rescued they were in latitude 42 deg 54 min. north longitude 40 deg. 20 min west.
Connecticut western news., 1887-08-31
THE SOCIAL pUsHERs.
The Class of People Who are Bound
 to Get on fin Society.

Says Boston letter to the Providence Journal: That the most humiliating fea- ture of modern society is to be found ill the artifices of those who wish to ''get on'' in the fashionable world there has often enough been remarked, yet there IS still room for amazement at the in genuity of the devices to which snobs resort. We have had a good many we'd dings recently in the neighborhood of Boston, and among other brides of high social position has been Miss X., whose family is rather noted for its exclusive ness. When the invitations were sent out Mrs. A., a woman who is really de- voured by social ambition, was not in cluded Ill the list of guests. She had met Mrs. K, and had somewhat over stepped the strict proprieties of etiquette Ill the manner in which she had called upon that exclusive lady. Now, she was doubtless much chagrined at not receiving card for wedding, which was to be a very large one, but she was by no means ready to abandon the field. On the day after the invitations went out, Mrs. A. sent Miss X. valuable, we'll selected piece of plate as wedding gift. Miss K, in the privacy of select circle of intimate friends, declared that she would not have the present. It was urged upon her that she certainly could not return it.
 ''But will not acknowledge it !" she declared angrily.
 But then, my dear, her mother said, 'you will be putting yourself in the wrong. You cannot be rude, and es pecially to nobody like Mrs. A."
 'I don't care," persisted the daugh- ter; ''I will not invite her anyway. This IS my wedding, and will have whom l plese. She can't buy an invitation with her trumpery old present"
 But of couse in the end Mrs. A. was invited and she appeared at the wedding with an airsof being the most intimate friend of the family. It amused those who knew the story, but Mrs. A, is ] clever enough to make the fact that she was there tell for good deal in hel struggle up the social heights.
 A still more amusing trick was re- sorted to by Boston lady this winter to get to reception where she wished to appear. She wrote to the hostess, tt whom she had never even been pre- sented, that she had lady high il Washington society staying with her and that 1t was so much the custom il Washington to attend receptions unin vited that her friend had seen no impro priety in telling some appropriateness tha she would meet them at this gathering The note went on to say that as hostess the writer Is put in so awkward posi- tion that she had ventured to lay tn case before the lady giving the enter tainment, hoping that she would be will ing to send cards to herself and tn stranger. On this occasion the schem was failure. The note was answered merely by formal regret that, the list o guests having been made up before th receipt of Mrs. note, it was i'm possible to comply with her request The lady from Washington probabl, never knew of the use made of her name At least she did not present herself a the reception.